A port of Capcom's hit vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up. Set in World War II's Pacific theater, you control a plane called the "Super Ace" on your mission to reach Tokyo and destroy the Japanese Imperial fleet.

This is the sequel to 1942. You're still piloting a P-38 Lightning in the Pacific theater of World War II, but this time your goal is to destroy the Japanese battleship Yamato. Along the way you'll fight Japanese air forces and receive permanent upgrades to your weaponry, fuel levels, and more.

Fight your way inside its deadly mouth! Travel down its throat, through its nerve center - battling hordes of enemy antibodies and bacteria! Use lasers, guided missiles, and special orbiting shields to destroy them! Beware the Guardians that ward off all intruders - bombard them with fierce fire power! You must succeed to save the Universe and rescue Princess Maria!

Uniquely combining elements of flight simulators and tabletop RPGs, DragonStrike allows you to take control of a knight atop a flying metal dragon as you complete attack missions and earn various upgrades.

A vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up with a prehistoric setting. Play as caveboy Dino Riki and use rocks, axes, boomerangs, and torches to defeat swarms of enemies. Along the way you'll pick up power-ups and weapon upgrades. A total of seven stages are available.

A Japanese-exclusive side-scrolling shoot 'em up based on the "Super Dimension Fortress Macross" anime. You control a VF-1 Valkyrie variable fighter against an onslaught of giant aliens called the Zentradi. Your VF-1 Valkyrie can change into three different forms, each one changing how the game is played.

One of the most popular games around the world. Shooting game with platformer elements. Rescue the humanity from Red Falcon. Game is set in distant future and somewhere in New Zealand. Animations and intermission story screens are cut for US version. Released for US NES as Contra, European NES as Probotector (slightly modified) and FamiCom as Gryzor, but almost illegible - very little English text is included in Japanese release; has intermission screens and animations on stages 1;5 & 8.

Shooting on earth and in space. Between fields, deserts and even Moon's craters. Gravity is the same on the Moon in this game. Players need to destroy 2 spaceships: one on water flight after desert shooting scene, and the other after Moon exploration. Watch out for mosquitoes in the desert. For FamiCom and 2 players, but alternative turns.

As a half-human, half-robot member of the Special Cybernetic Attack Team, you (and a friend, in two-player co-operative mode) must fight your way through five futuristic, auto-scrolling stages on your way to defeating Vile Malmort and his army of alien invaders. The Japanese version (Final Mission) is significantly more difficult than the American or European releases.

Flight over an out-of-this-world ocean. Destroying rivalry blue aircraft and 4-turbine red fighter plane somewhere during stage. Boats and Titanic can be destroyed using torpedoes only. Game has variable day cycle - midday, evening, night and midday with a boss somewhere on the field. Has bonus stage after killing a boss after each stage. Indefinite number of scenes is included here. FamiCom only.

A vertically-scrolling shooter in the style of 1942. You control a biplane and take out enemy airplanes, earning power-ups and bonuses along the way. Despite the arcade version having been released in Japan, Europe, and North America, this NES port is exclusive to North America.

This Japanese Famicom-exclusive port of the seminal arcade classic is extremely faithful to the original game. You control a laser cannon that moves right and left along the bottom of the screen, blasting away at an ever-advancing army of alien invaders. The more of their numbers you take out, the more aggressive they become. Take cover behind your shields or blast through them to create a strategic firing position. Try to clear as many waves of aliens as possible to achieve the highest score.

Recca is regarded as the most intense, hardest shooter on Famicom. It also pushes the system to its very limits with multiple sprites on screen at once and little to no slowdowns, allowing for smooth bullet hell action on an 8-bit console. Combat relentless swarms of enemies and vicious bosses in normal mode or try to achieve highest score in score and time attack modes. This game was made specifically for Summer Carnival '92 competition, thus being a very rare and expensive collector's item. Recca was re-released for Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in 2013.

This combination of shoot 'em up and adventure game is actually a sequel to Tecmo's arcade title Star Force. Super Star Force allows the player to control Ralph, the pilot of the Neo Final Star, a spaceship with time traveling capabilities. The game is broken up into air missions, where the player is controlling the Neo Final Star, and on-foot missions, where the player controls Ralph as he explores the surface of planets. Ralph can travel to eight different time periods from the year 0001 to 2317. Aiding him along the way is Norm, who will sell Ralph items and give him hints throughout the game.

Take control of the highly-advanced military helicopter codenamed "Tiger-Heli" in this vertically-scrolling shoot 'em up. You'll use machine guns and scatter bombs to attack tanks, other aircraft, and enemy buildings. Find the red cross power-up to have smaller helicopters join you at your side, unleashing double firepower as you advance through the four stages.

In the distant, far-away future of 1999, an alien named Darc Seed has turned all Americans into zombies. As the giant severed samurai head Namakubi, you must use your rapid-fire eyeballs and vomiting powers to defeat Darc Seed and his army of zeppelins and lava monsters. It's exactly as weird as it sounds.